Descend Through Abstract Tunnels In Roguelite 6DOF Shooter Pixelpunk XL

Descent and other space shooters popularized six-degrees-of-freedom action, an interesting subgenre that has seen a small resurgence with games like Sublevel Zero and the upcoming Overload. Pixelpunk XL is an interesting take on the concept, presenting alien pixelated environments to fly and blast through. The randomly-generated environments are constructed from odd pixelated rooms and tunnels, […]

How to Explain Difficult And Abstract Concepts (The Smart Way)

Albert Einstein said, If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. But a lot of times, we struggle about how to explain some difficult, or even abstract concepts to others. In this article, I will provide you with a solution: metaphor. Explaining and examining concepts using metaphors improves our thinking. Metaphorical thinking […]

In Other Waters charts the wonders of an abstract alien ocean

In Other Waters is a narrative adventure that embraces the unknown. It invites you to explore an alien ocean in the distant future and fill in the gaps with your imagination, armed with nothing more than a radar screen and a diving suit with rudimentary artificial intelligence. It’s the biggest project yet from developer Gareth […]